The Bulgars and the Steppe Empire in the Early Middle Ages

Fig. 16. Plates from a saddle from Verkhnii Chir-Yurt, Khazaria, now in
Daghestan; and plates from a saddle from Shilovo mound 1, Khazaria,
Middle Volga, now in Russia (after Flerova 2007, figs. 2–3, with kind
permission of Valentina Flerova).